Roberto Bonola

Roberto Bonola (born November 14, 1874 in Bologna , † May 16, 1911 ibid) was an Italian mathematician .

Life

Bonola studied at the University of Bologna (Laureate 1898 with a thesis on non-Euclidean geometry) with Federigo Enriques . He was then assistant to Enriques at the university, before becoming a school teacher at the Scuola Normale in Palermo (Petralia Sottana) in 1900 and in Pavia in 1901 , where he also became an assistant at the university and in 1908 a lecturer in projective and descriptive geometry. In 1911, shortly before his death, he became a professor at the Istituto Superiore de Magistero Femminile in Rome . Bonola is best known for his history of non-Euclidean geometry ( La geometria non euclidea. Esposizione storico critica del suo sviluppo , Bologna, Zanichelli), published in 1906 (reprint 1975), published in England by Horatio Scott Carslaw (1912, Dover reprint from 1955 with translations of works by Nikolai Iwanowitsch Lobatschewski and János Bolyai ) and first published in Germany in 1908 and supplemented by Heinrich Liebmann .

Works

• Non-Euclidean geometry: a critical and historical study of its development (translated by Horatio Scott Carslaw ), The Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago 1912 (English)

literature

• Joseph W. Dauben and Christoph J. Scriba (editors): Writing the history of mathematics , Birkhäuser 2002. ISBN 3-7643-6166-2 , p. 372.